Pastor’s Blog (Page 3)
No doubt you’re familiar with the story of when the prophet Isaiah was sent to King Hezekiah with the ominous message: “Thus says the LORD, ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live’” (2 Ki. 20:1). Please join me in reflecting on that incident. What sorts of things do you think the Lord knew Hezekiah needed to do to “set his house in order”? Probably. But…
This is one of those encouraging-sounding statements that is… just not true. While God is the God of the second chance (and often the third, fourth, and more!), and while He loves to bring beauty out of the ashes of our sin, and restore the years which the locusts of waywardness have eaten… He does not make this promise. There are times when He says, “Enough.” When His…
Forgiveness is erasing the debt, right? Jesus Christ erases the sin debt of any who repent of their sins and yield their lives to Him as Lord and Savior. Many of us are solid on that. Many of us also have a firm understanding of Christ’s cleansing from sin after salvation. We readily quote 1 John 1:9. “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will…
“Blessed are the poor in spirit…” is a portion of the text I have been preparing to speak on this Sunday. So you can imagine how the name of this trucking company caught my eye! Super ego holding. What a surprising name for a trucking company! Would it surprise you to know their web site says they are the best? But Jesus turned the super ego approach upside-down and said,…
What Is the Currency of the Kingdom of Heaven?
As you well know, every kingdom has its currency. Long before the Romans had the denarius and the Greeks their drachma, any sovereign nation worth its salt has insisted on its own currency. The currency or coin usually highlights significant features of that nation with an image, inscription, or…
Truly This Man Was the Son of God
The sun has now set for good this Friday. Strangest thing happened earlier this afternoon: complete darkness for about three hours, then light again for a while before sunset. In all my years there’s never been a day quite like this one. Three men crucified together—that’s not unique. Neither was the soldiers’ disparaging and brutality of the condemned—I’ve come to expect…